Newport Agreement

  • April 28, 1639
Image: Governor Williams Coddington House, Marlborough Street (Parts in Rhode Island Historical Society), Newport, Newport County, RI. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.ri0044.photos/?sp=1

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Pocasset. On the 28th of the 2d [month], 1639It is agreed.

By vs whose hands are underwritten, to propagate a Plantation in the midst of the Island or elsewhere; And doe engage ourselves to bear equall charges, answerable to our strength and estates in common; and that our determinations shall be by major voice of judge and elders; the Judge to have a double voice.

[Signed by William Coddington and eight others]

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